Middle Tennessee
Sportsman
    I enjoy fishing on Percy Priest Reservoir. I try to keep up with the bass and catch a good one every now and then. In the winter and spring I fish for crappie up in the Stones River. I also try to hit the spring spawning run of Stripe up the Stones River. The weekends around the full moon in May will find me chaseing bream in J.P.P. and shellcracker on Kentucky Lake. If you need any info just mail me and I will try to help you out.crappie
Stocked trout    The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has an extensive trout stocking program that they enact every year. I fish tailwaters near my house mostly, but I do enjoy making some trips east to fish in the mountains. TWRA has started its annual winter trout stock at Nices Mill Dam which is located in Smyrna. These trout can`t live in the Stones during summer so they only put in fish during the winter. Most of the trout that I fish for are recent stockers, but we also have some fish that are holdovers from past stockings. The fly that I have my most luck with on the Caney is the Woolly Bugger, either olive and black or brown and black. I have also had good success on a fly I made up myself that I haven`t even named yet. It is kind of a combo of several different flies.
LINKS
Official Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Page
My Wooden Boat Building Page
Doug Outdoors Archive
Crappie.com forums. A place I like to hang out.


1-30-09